Example sentences of "have [be] [adj] [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Naturally , Reynard started there , drew the first blank , which did n't disconcert him ( he would have been disappointed by an easy discovery anyway ) and composed himself to delve deeper , perhaps taking it backwards a month at a time , beginning with Malamute 's employment with Club Eleusis . |
| 2 | In particular , it should have been apparent from an early stage that the railway would prove totally inadequate to deal with the demand generated in the Isle of Dogs , especially by the Canary Wharf project . |
| 3 | It can not have been easy for an ordinand or a curate to stand up to contemptuous persiflage about his religion from one of the ablest minds of the generation who happened to be his own brother . |
| 4 | Again , given the story 's setting and plot , it would have been easy for an insular national chauvinism to have been the prevailing tone . |
| 5 | She may well have lived in her parents ' house before her enclosure : when she describes the circumstances of her visions in The Revelations of Divine Love , she says that there were a large number of people round her bed and that priests were able to come and go as they pleased , which would not always have been possible in an anchorage . |
| 6 | This may have been due to an accident , but two Ju88s of 5/LG 1 were badly damaged over Malta , presumably hit by A.A. fire and force-landed at Catania on their return . |
| 7 | Prime Minister Schlüter called the December 1990 elections earlier than would normally have been necessary in an attempt to obtain a firm mandate for far-reaching economic reforms . |
| 8 | Even so , it would have been impossible for an insect to grow much larger , say to have a girth more than a quarter of an inch in diameter . |
| 9 | Saxon Christianity in Kiev would have been tantamount to an attack , at least culturally , on the Byzantine flank . |
| 10 | the cabin is smart and modern , and the panel well-stocked … but we would have been grateful for an autopilot . |
| 11 | By mid 1994 every person in the Company should have been involved with an important and meaningful piece of TOP improvement activity . |
| 12 | She stipulated that it must never have been involved in an accident . |
| 13 | I would prefer not to have my guy stand up and say I may have been involved in an assassination . ’ |
| 14 | He could have been involved in an accident . |
| 15 | The Dauphin 's interest in delaying the transfer of territory and renunciation of sovereignty is obvious , but it has been suggested that Edward too might have been glad of an excuse to resume the war if he wanted to . |
| 16 | I can sense her relief , she must have been afraid of an emotional scene . |
| 17 | By this stage , the pursuer 's agents ought to be prepared for Proof and ought , therefore , to be more receptive to arguments concerning actual weaknesses in their case than may have been true at an earlier stage . |
| 18 | It would have been hard for an outside eye to have detected anything wrong , although Fritzi 's brother Mickey had provided a clue . |
| 19 | In a career spanning half a century Davis appeared in numerous major films but practically no great ones , a distinction that , in truth , may have been irrelevant to an actress for whom the role , rather than the film encompassing it , was primordial . |
| 20 | She says it was an old building and someone could have been stuck on an upper floor . |
| 21 | It would have been tempting for an adviser to have thought in 1968 that a solus agreement involving the exclusive purchase of petrol was of sufficiently established commercial importance to fall within that class of cases to which Lord Wilberforce said the restraint of trade doctrine would not apply . |
| 22 | I DO NOT feel , writes PC Michael B. S. Casey , that Mhoira Robertson would have been happy with an obituary ( by Joan Burnie , 3 October ) that was used as a platform to criticise her colleagues ( antiastunomologists — thank you , Anthony Burgess ) and the male species in general : ‘ and Scottish policemen do not like women much at all . ’ |
| 23 | if defendant had paid into court and plaintiff had accepted , plaintiff would have been entitled to an order for costs to be taxed if not agreed . |
| 24 | Steeped in ancient pomp and splendour , but loaded with post-modern wit and allusion , this semi-mystical edifice could almost have been purpose-built for an Orb photo shoot . |
| 25 | Of course , you may not have been responsible for an existing problem . |